As part of the Enterprise and Research methods module the CAP team made an appearance at Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children’s Stories as part of Newcastles and Gateshead’s famed culture crawl. Mike Hurst and Lewis Brown equally brought an interesting, entertaining and engaging range of demonstrative and thought provoking performances and installations.

During the night I helped document activities in Seven Stories (yes that’s a lot of stairs) and tried to capture the engagement of those around me. In this post i’ll attach some photographs taken on the night:

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After discovering that running a coil pickup through my external signal processer in my Korg MS 20 yielded interesting results, I began contemplating how to create a more powerful coil with an increased magnetic field with hopes to detect pixel changes on electronic devices. If successful I would be able to control the sounds received by the pickup via visual data – connecting this to laptop screens or my IPhone, I then could stimulate it by playing video or using the camera to get a live data stream from what was visually in front of you. Further experimentation with these ideas could lead somewhere very interesting sonically especially when paired with the dual oscillator synth.

My first attempt at creating a spider web coil was influenced by a video I was shown by ‘Giogio Sancristofono’ on ‘matrixsynth.com’ (link at bottom of post) where a DIY spider web synth was made of of copper wire.

After a failed attempt at laser cutting the coils diaphragm, I 3D printed a design found on ‘Instrucables.com’ and made a prototype using nickel wire to some faint but hopeful results.

The sensitivity of the coil was weak, weaker than my shop bought coil pickup. Although it picked up certain noises from my laptop, the signal would have to be boosted intensely with a compressor to get any faint result from it. Spurred on from this (and thanks to Mike Hurst) I rewound the coil with 24SWG 0.56MM enamelled copper wire and increased the density of the wound copper to hopefully increase the signal. This was successful and it worked well after grounding the coil. I could pick up sounds like those I could get from the shop bought coil however I still couldn’t pickup any pixel or screen changes from it – to do this I think I will need the use of an AM radio, using the coil as an antenna…

I will however do some recordings with this coil…

[A day later…]

So, I bought a FM/AM transmitter and dismantled it and attached the spider web coil to the AM aerial location on the circuit board and I was able to detect small changes and interference when placed near electronic devices such as my laptop and phone. However, these results were not as great as I was expecting. After trying various setups and wiring placement, trying different areas on the circuit board and different arrangements of the antennae, the interference wasn’t as drastic as I hoped. The best results I have got with the copper spider web antennae definitely came from connecting it up to a 1.5 mm jack cable and using it as I would with the telephone pickup coil. There is a lot more experimenting to do with this device I think that could yield greater results but as of now I think the results from the equipment I have used it with, haven’t hit the exactly criteria I has been hoping to reach.

My further sonic investigation for this project will be rooted in the backwards wiring of a small speaker as a percussive input and the shop bought pickup coil. I will also be making recordings with a solar panel as means of a voltage input, creating a light Theremin.

I’ve been thinking about how to expand the use of my newly acquired coil pick up, and i’ve been recently playing around with a couple basic external signal processing patches (trigger our/in, CV in, V-F converter) with my Korg MS-20, you put one and one together and you get this;

Although this is a rather stripped down basic patch/setup, it has the potential to be a foundation for more experimentation – I plan on creating my own monstrosity of a coil pick up and doing some further weird things.

So does that mean all political coverage for example before its implication were just ‘truth’

Pre-post-truth politics? Where politicians deal with only facts, or was it that those facts were just more believable? But they weren’t though, we all knew they weren’t, we all knew politicians talked bullshit, we all just went along with it because we couldn’t imagine a world where it didn’t exist, or at least couldn’t imagine how to achieve that world.

Or did we? maybe it was the opposite who am i to say? who am i? to say? to say what? did who?

Politicians always lied, post-truth is just a façade?

If the truth doesn’t matter, what does? is it emotional response? is this an emotional response? am i being too emotional right now or rational or the opposite? what is the opposite? 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0

Does that make certain people who take advantage of these ‘powers‘ bad or good? can you define bad? good? who’s morale compass is accurate enough to decide if he or she is a BAD person. accurate to what? what are we measuring this accuracy with? your own complex or your god complex? is this even complex or a complex?

Information

Accessibility

Distribution of information?

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Selling an ideology

Trump – Make America great again

Coca Cola – Taste the feeling

McDonalds – I’m loving it

Coca Cola – Red – Trump – Red

Putin? or his mate thats good with the confusion tactics?

Is post truth just a way of saying you’re being told lies? find me someone who’s surprised? is this new?

actually don’t

or do

don’t listen to me
what are ‘lies’ anyway?

Something we are TOLD that Is not truth?

whats the truth? anyway? who gets to decide whats true?

confusion?

is this confusing you?

I don’t know you tell me, this is just a think piece.

why are you even reading this?

are you trying to form your own opinion or just get influenced by mine?

is this just a think piece?

7 reasons why post-truth blogs are not very influential, you’ll won’t believe what number 7 is!
“that’s just how politics work”

Post-truth =/= Pro-lies – Past-lies

CLICKBAIT

Bait me

no he’s making a good point you should listen

formulate your ideas around it?

STREAM of consciousness?

but who’s consciousness?…

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